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E-Global Library, Larry Sheret
E-Global Library, Larry Sheret
Larry Sheret
e-global library is an information broker that has pulled together excellent information resources, and packaged them in a way that makes them more affordable and readily available through a user-friendly delivery system that is fully tailorable to the needs of individual institutions and libraries. Just as a Wall Street mutual fund is able to give professionally managed stock market access to smaller investors at an affordable price, e-global library is an information broker that gives access to several quality online library services for a price which most educational facilities would be unable to match if they were to implement these …
Accunet/Ap Photo Archive, Larry R. Sheret
Accunet/Ap Photo Archive, Larry R. Sheret
Larry Sheret
This database review is published in a peer-reviewed library journal called The Charleston Advisor. It offers critical information to libraries as they determine which databases to subscribe to.
Reference Suite @ Facts.Com, Larry Sheret
Reference Suite @ Facts.Com, Larry Sheret
Larry Sheret
Facts On File was founded in 1940 to serve the radio news business with the publication of the weekly Facts On File World News Digest, the complete database of which contains 100,000 articles that have been meticulously indexed and cross-linked to nearly 1,000,000 records from Facts On File annual indexes. The Web version of these two sources went online as FACTS.com in March 1999. Four modules that have been added are Today’s Science, Issues and Controversies, The World Almanac, and Funk and Wagnall’s New Encyclopedia. Together, these five modules make up the Reference Suite @ FACTS.com, which was launched in …
Ap Soundbank, Larry Sheret
Ap Soundbank, Larry Sheret
Larry Sheret
Working in conjunction with AccuWeather, the world’s largest corporate supplier of weather information and images, AP is now making its sound archive available to schools (K–12) and public and academic libraries. AccuWeather’s mission is to supply copyright-cleared sound to subscribers for educational purposes over the internet, using an interface that is easily and intuitively understood by non-news professionals. The Associated Press (AP) formed in 1848 when six daily newspapers in New York City collaborated on the installation of a telegraphic relay to transmit foreign news brought by ships docking in the harbor. AP began adding audio content to its news …
Accunet/Ap Multimedia Archive, Larry Sheret
Accunet/Ap Multimedia Archive, Larry Sheret
Larry Sheret
The Multimedia Archive is the most extensive source of photographs and sound-clips available online. Photos, sound-clips, news text, and graphics are stored in four separate databases searchable from a single Web page. The photo and sound archives are the most important components of the site since they contain files that reach back to the 1840s and 1940s, respectively. The photographic database contains 750,000 images and the audio database 500,000 audio clips. There are also 800,000 news text files that date from January 1997, and 13,760 graphics that date from January 1999. Working in conjunction with AccuWeather, the world’s largest corporate …
Upcc Book Collections On Project Muse, Larry Sheret
Upcc Book Collections On Project Muse, Larry Sheret
Larry Sheret
The University Press Content Consortium (UPCC) has collaborated with Project MUSE to host over 15,000 e-books on the MUSE platform. This database was launched on January 1, 2012, and is fully integrated with MUSE’s content from 500 journals in the humanities and social sciences to form a seamlessly searchable database of books and articles that provides scholarly content from 192 university presses and learned societies at a very affordable price. Carnegie Tier 4 & 5 universities may receive an additional 20% and 40% discount respectively if a purchase contract is signed by Aug. 31, 2012. As has always been the …